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Word Meanings - UNBOSOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To disclose freely; to reveal in confidence, as secrets; to confess; -- often used reflexively; as, to unbosom one's self. Milton.

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  • CONFESSION
    The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution. Auricular confession . . . or the private and special confession of sins to a priest for the purpose of obtaining his absolution. Hallam. 4. A formulary
  • CONFIDENCE
    1. The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in. Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's integrity. South. A cheerful confidence in
  • CONFESSER
    One who makes a confession.
  • CONFESSIONAL
    Pertaining to a confession of faith. Confessional equality, equality before the law of persons confessing different creeds.
  • CONFESSIONALISM
    An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith. Shaff.
  • CONFESSIONIST
    One professing a certain faith. Bp. Montagu.
  • UNBOSOM
    To disclose freely; to reveal in confidence, as secrets; to confess; -- often used reflexively; as, to unbosom one's self. Milton.
  • OFTENNESS
    Frequency. Hooker.
  • DISCLOSE
    Disclosure. Shak. Young.
  • CONFESSIONALIST
    A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession. Boucher
  • OFTEN
    Frequently; many times; not seldom.
  • CONFESSIONARY
    A confessional. Johnson.
  • REVEAL
    1. To make known ; to unveil; to disclose; to show. Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, She might not, would not, yet reveal her own. Waller. 2. Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine
  • CONFESSORSHIP
    The act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith. Our duty to contend even to confessorship. J. H. Newman.
  • CONFESSARY
    One who makes a confession. Bp. Hall.
  • DISCLOSED
    Represented with wings expanded; -- applied to doves and other birds not of prey. Cussans.
  • MILTONIAN
    Miltonic. Lowell.
  • REVEALABLE
    Capable of being revealed. -- Re*veal"a*ble*ness, n.
  • MILTONIC
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
  • OFTENSITH
    Frequently; often. For whom I sighed have so oftensith. Gascoigne.
  • SELF-CONFIDENCE
    The quality or state of being self-confident; self-reliance. A feeling of self-confidence which supported and sustained him. Beaconsfield.
  • UNOFTEN
    Not often.
  • HAMILTON PERIOD
    A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
  • IRREVEALABLE
    Incapable of being revealed. -- Ir`re*veal"a*bly, adv.

 

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